I think the mouse's wheel is the most excellent invention Microsoft has made
(hey, at least it works, which is more than I can say for some of their
products!).  I use it with 3D Studio MAX R2 all the time.  It saves a huge
amount of time.  You can even program it within MAX to do functions called
"Strokes".  You can zoom, pan, activate a viewport, start a rendering,
change an object's properties, add a modifier, activate the home grid, align
an object, toggle the animation mode, align two normals, constrain a
transformation to an axis, cycle selections, delete an object, start a
MAXScript, toggle the dual planes and the list goes on and on and on and
on...  I'm not trying to be bossy or anything, all I'm saying is that some
people have a use for it while others don't, and that's fair.

By the way, MAX's raytracer is SLOOOOWWWW!!!!!!!!  POV-Ray's is still the
best raytracer I've seen, and it's worth $5500 less!  So I'm not trying to
put down POV-Ray either (just thought I'd make that clear!).

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Lance Birch
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